AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 122, 21 November 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ (PER PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne. November 20. A strike has cccuncd in Curramburra Colliery, owing to the refusal of the owners to pay the miners for slack. Sir Matthew Bavics still continues to address the Court in the Mercantile Bank enses, and is endeavouring to show cause why he should not be committed for trial. This Day. The annual meeting of the Victorian Rifle Association has opened. New Zealand is represented by two marksmen. Howie, of Wellington, scored 41 in the Rifle match, two points below the top score. Sydney, This Day. The Minister of Public Works proposes to expend £800,000 during the next twelve months on sewerage and other works thus providing employment tor two thousand men. The Royal Tar arriyes from Adelaide shortly, and will take two hundred single men to new Australia, in Pnraquay. Owing to the warning nature of the cable messages from the new settlement it has been decided to delay sending the women for sis months pending enquiries into the truth of the allegations Over three thousand members are now enrolled, and the committee contemplate the purchase of one or two more vessels. Arrived, last night, the Hauroto, from Wellington. Mr Berrigan, of the Farmers Union, carried a motion declaring that the duties imposed for the purpose of encouraging wheat growing had failed in their object and that the Farmers' Unions throughout the colony should be communicated with as to the advisableness of sweeping them away. There is expected to be a strong agitation in the country for a return to a free trade policy. Adelaide, This Day. From July Ist to November 16th, the railway revenue amounts to £41,000, which is larger than for corresponding period last year. Bbisbane, November 21. The Government has offered a reward of £250 for information that will tend to the conviction of the person who set fire to the steamer India.